Re: TICKET SHOCK

[Kathy <kathy@rogerdaltrey.net>]

At 01:50 PM 10/02/2000, Christopher Heuing wrote:
>"If suddenly the public stops buying concert tickets at the current prices,
>I would suspect you'd see some pressure to be lowered," says Bongiovanni.
>"But, at this point, we haven't seen anything like that."
>
>Here, Here- That's exactly why I am sitting this one out.
>
>ChrisH

Just arriving home after 4 nights at MSG, I'm catching up and have this to 
say about the above....

I don't agree with the "sitting it out" because you never know when it WILL 
be the last show (if you can afford it) *but* I do have to say that I did 
run into an attitude while following the tour that people feel "entitled" 
to move up front if there is a vacant seat(and even if there *isn't* a 
seat).  When I talked so someone who has done this their rational was "do 
you want the band to have up front empty?"  MY thoughts on this is 
emphatically YES.  If the front is completely full the BAND will never know 
that the front IS priced too high.  There is no way that they get 
themselves involved in the detail necessary to know what seats sold and 
what didn't.  EMPTY seats would tell them that the front is priced too 
high.  Ok, that will never happen but I had to vent after having 3rd row 
seats and being mostly unable to see because there were at least 2 
additional rows of squatters that security didn't chase back (I saw *much* 
exchanging of handshakes with them-I'm presuming bribes were being passed)


Kathy

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